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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i'm fine with the idea in theory but then the story should have played out differently. in TFA they introduce snoke without explaining anything about him (why is his skull half crushed? why is he obsessed with the empire? why is he apparently the big leader now that kylo answers to?) and in TLJ he just dies ("well guess you'll never get the answers to those questions lol!"). that's dumb. johnson obviously wanted to tell a different story than abrams but you can't just do this when a ton of groundwork for the story has already been laid. the sequel trilogy feels like one of those board 8 fanfiction projects about the character contests from back in the day, with a bunch of different writers continuing the same story (and even those felt less disjointed, really).

in fairness, i think they made the same mistake (to a lesser extent) in the OT with boba fett. in ESB they're all like "hey here's this mysterious new (not counting the holiday special) villain he's really going to do some awesome shit in the next one!" and then in RotJ they're like "oh he unceremoniously died whoops."

this just reminds me of how rare something like the lord of the rings trilogy is. when you don't have a story that was meticulously planned out from start to finish, you always get stupid shit that doesn't make sense from a narrative standpoint.

Well LOTR is one book that was published like 50 years before the movies so it couldn't really be disjointed as the source material wasn't. The OT is more of a miracle in that sense - the emperor barely gets a mention in the original, and ends up as the overarching villain. It doesn't feel planned out but it worked very well.

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